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1 escalate
'eskəleit(to increase or enlarge rapidly: Prices are escalating.) aumentartr['eskəleɪt]1 (war) intensificar, agravar1 (war, violence, etc) intensificarse, agravarse2 (prices etc) aumentar, subir\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto escalate in/into terminar en, degenerar en: intensificar (un conflicto), aumentar (precios)escalate vi: intensificarse, aumentarsev.• escalar v.• intensificar v.'eskəleɪt
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a) \<\<fighting/violence/dispute\>\> intensificarse*; \<\<prices/claims\>\> aumentarb) escalating pres p <dispute/tension> crecienteescalating wages/prices — sueldos/precios en continuo aumento or que van en escalada
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vt \<\<fighting/tension\>\> intensificar*; \<\<demands\>\> aumentar['eskǝleɪt]1. VI1) [costs, prices] subir vertiginosamenteescalating costs — costes mpl que van en continuo aumento
the cost of the project has escalated to £8.7 million — el coste del proyecto ha subido vertiginosamente a 8,7 millones de libras
2) [violence, tension, conflict] intensificarsethe violence could escalate into a war — la violencia podría intensificarse hasta llegar a una guerra
2.VT [+ conflict] intensificar; [+ demands] aumentar* * *['eskəleɪt]
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a) \<\<fighting/violence/dispute\>\> intensificarse*; \<\<prices/claims\>\> aumentarb) escalating pres p <dispute/tension> crecienteescalating wages/prices — sueldos/precios en continuo aumento or que van en escalada
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vt \<\<fighting/tension\>\> intensificar*; \<\<demands\>\> aumentar -
2 de-escalate
'diː'eskəleɪt
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transitive verb \<\<bombing\>\> desescalar, reducir*; \<\<crisis\>\> desacelerar
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vi \<\<violence\>\> disminuir*, reducirse*; \<\<situation\>\> mejorar[ˌdiː'eskǝleɪt]VT [+ tension] reducir; [+ crisis, conflict] desacelerar, frenar la escalada de; [+ war] frenar la escalada de* * *['diː'eskəleɪt]
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transitive verb \<\<bombing\>\> desescalar, reducir*; \<\<crisis\>\> desacelerar
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vi \<\<violence\>\> disminuir*, reducirse*; \<\<situation\>\> mejorar -
3 guerra
guerra sustantivo femenino 1 (Mil, Pol) war; estar en guerra to be at war; hacerle la guerra a algn to wage war on o against sb; guerra bacteriológica or biológica germ o biological warfare; guerra civil civil war; guerra fría cold war; guerra mundial world war; guerra nuclear nuclear war; guerra química chemical warfare 2 (fam) ( problemas) trouble, hassle (colloq);
guerra sustantivo femenino war: nos declararon la guerra, they declared war on us
estamos en guerra, we are at war
guerra bacteriológica, germ warfare
guerra civil/mundial, civil/world war
guerra fría, cold war Locuciones: familiar dar guerra, (dar problemas, trabajo) to give problems (dar la lata) to be a pain
enterrar el hacha de guerra, to bury the hatchet
en pie de guerra, on the warpath
nombre de guerra, nom de guerre ' guerra' also found in these entries: Spanish: adscribirse - bacteriológica - bacteriológico - buque - cuando - declararse - desastre - desnaturalizar - durante - enterrar - estado - estallido - fantasma - guerrilla - haber - hacer - hornada - intensificación - ración - sangrienta - sangriento - secuela - umbral - unirse - venir - vencedor - vencedora - asolar - barco - borde - botín - caído - consejo - continuar - corresponsal - crimen - crucero - declaración - declarar - desencadenar - durar - embromar - entrar - estallar - estragos - ganar - horror - lisiado - marina - miseria English: act up - alleged - assume - atrocity - badly - battle-cry - blissful - brink - capture - ceasefire - civil war - cold war - court martial - danger - declaration - declare - diminish - drag on - ensue - escalate - fight - flatten - for - full-scale - germ warfare - go on - guerilla - guerrilla - in - intervene - long - monstrosity - monument - neutrality - nuclear war - orphan - outbreak - over - P.O.W. - pen name - play up - prewar - prisoner - ravage - refugee - shell-shocked - shellshock - start - stem - through
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escalate — v. (D; intr.) to escalate into (the local war escalated into a major conflict) * * * [ eskəleɪt] (D; intr.) to escalate into (the local war escalated into a major conflict) … Combinatory dictionary
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